Contact: Carolyn Conway
Phone: (212) 305-3900 

Kathleen Robinson, Bryan Dotson
Phone: (212) 305-5587
E-mail: krobinso@mail.med.cornell.edu
 

MORE THAN MAMMOGRAMS AND PAP SMEARS:
A BROADER FOCUS ON WOMEN’S HEALTH

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Offers Free Symposium

TOPICS:

Why Women’s Health?:  Improving Medical Care for Women

Heart Disease in Women:  Separate But Not Equal

Colon Cancer:  Increasingly Common, Increasingly Preventable

Depression and Anxiety Disorders:  Why the Gender Gap?

DATE & TIME:

Monday, April 3, 2000

5:30PM — 8:00PM

PLACE:

Ames Auditorium, Lighthouse International
111 East 59th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenue)

SPEAKERS: Michelle P. Warren, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology;  Medical Director, Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women’s Health, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Elsa-Grace V. Giardina, M.D., Professor of Medicine;  Director, Center for Women’s Health, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Jonathan LaPook, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine;  Attending Physician, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Margaret Spinelli, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry;  Director, Maternal Mental Health Program, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

MODERATOR:

Freya Schnabel, M.D., Medical Director, Women At Risk;  Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery;  Member, Breast Surgery Service, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

The symposium, which is sponsored by the Frances Lear Fund, is free and open to the public. For more information and/or to RSVP, please call (212) 305-4486.  Reservations are required, and seating is limited.

Refreshments will be served.